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Hiram Upham: 2006 Searching For Bigfoot Expedition To Montana

Tom Biscardi and the Searching for Bigfoot team came to Montana early in March of 2006 on the first ever Searching for Bigfoot Winter Expedition. While there, Tom and his team were able to work alongside of the local people to research some of the exciting and interesting activities in the general area surrounding Browning. The local residents soon found that we were serious about our research and respectful of the people, their customs, and their land. Personal bonds and trust soon developed.

After we left, a local resident, Hiram Upham heard his neighbors and friends talking about their experiences with the Searching for Bigfoot team. As Hiram heard of more and more positive experiences about working with Tom Biscardi and the Searching for Bigfoot team from his neighbors and friends, he decided to go out on a limb and call Tom.

As he and Tom talked, Hiram felt comfortable enough with Tom and the Team to share his story with us. He had kept his story secret for five or more years because of bad experiences he had working with other people and groups after asking for help in identifying the subject of a film he took back in 1999 when it first happened.

Hiram, it seemed, had in his possession, a film of an unusual foot he had acquired. Hiram felt he had finally found someone he could trust to help him with his find and sent a copy of his film to Tom and asked Tom for his help in identifying the animal in the film.

Tom shared the film with professionals he had worked with in the past, including paleontologists, biologists, and anthropologists. None of these professionals were able to identify the animal on the film conclusively. The conclusions they did reach, ranged from it possibly being some type of unknown humanoid to it being the remains of a prehistoric animal long though extinct. The only way we would have to solve this mystery would be to go back to Montana and see if we could retrieve the skeletal remains and subject them to DNA testing. The following is an overview of that piece of film and the interviews of Hiram and his family.

Once in Browning Montana, we met with Hiram Upham to get more information about what led up to his finding the leg and foot in the film clip. Prior to viewing the interviews with Hiram and his family, I would like to share a brief overview of what led up to this meeting.

The following is an excerpt from a sworn affidavit that Searching for Bigfoot received from Hiram Upham. Hiram lives with his wife and family on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, near Browning Montana. There in Browning, Hiram is a Minister at a local Full Gospel Church.

On October 6th, 1999, while off in Great Falls, Hiram received a phone call from his daughter and son-in-law informing him that there was something unusual going on at his home. She explained that the family dog had gone out near the local creek and drug home a piece of some type of carcass.

The carcass was unlike anything she or her husband had ever seen. It appeared to be the ribcage, hip, leg, and foot of something they had never seen before. Hiram’s daughter, not knowing what this might be, called the Department of Fish and Game to help her. When they arrived, they confiscated the remains and said they would get back to her once they identified the carcass. A short while after they left with the remains, the dog came home again with another leg with foot attached. The assumption being that this was the other leg of the same unidentified animal. It was at that point that she called her dad, Hiram on his cell phone. Hiram came straight back from his trip and in a few hours was there with his daughter and son-in-law.

This is what Hiram then shared with Tom Biscardi and the Searching for Bigfoot team in a sworn affidavit;

“….our dog drug up *(what) looked like a hind leg and foot, that I personally saw and filmed. The first leg that my dog brought up was a hind leg some of the ribs and intestines. My daughter and her husband saw this first part. The Blackfeet Indian Fish and Game took the first leg and foot and I understand *(that eventually) they through it away. I kept the other leg for some time in my freezer, but because of the smell was so strong, I went out a little way from my house and buried it….”

(words added to facilitate readability) According to Hiram, the Department of Fish and Game officials apparently were unable to identify the remains and eventually threw them away. Hiram tells us that to the best of his knowledge, the agents of the Department of Fish and Game department where admonished by the Tribal Council for not conducting a thorough enough investigation before disposing of the remains.

The Searching for Bigfoot team came to Hiram’s home to find more physical evidence of the find, but due to the time involved and the activities of nature, we could only find small pieces of the plastic bag that the bones where buried in. Fortunately, the film remains and some pieces of the original find may exist at a local college. The Uphams are researching this for us. If the samples do exist and were stored properly, we may be able to complete DNA testing in the near future.

Please keep checking back to this website to see the film of Hiram’s discovery and see for yourself!

Hiram showing Tom where he buried the leg and foot.

Some of our test holes from searching for the remains.

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